Green Day take a jab at Elon Musk during Johannesburg concert: “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda”

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Green Day have taken a shot at Elon Musk during a recent concert in South Africa – check out footage of the performance below.On Sunday (January 19), Green Day performed their first show of the year at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.

While performing ‘American Idiot’, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong swapped out a portion of the song’s lyrics to take a jab at X (formerly Twitter) and Tesla owner Elon Musk.Over the last year, Elon Musk – who is from Pretoria, South Africa – has been instrumental in Donald Trump‘s bid to return to the White House, championing him as the President of the United States.

This has resulted in Musk being tasked to lead Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.Armstrong sang during ‘American Idiot’, “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda“, notably swapping out the “redneck agenda” line.

Check it out below.The band’s lyric-change comes after Green Day on December 31, 2023 performed at the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve gig and called out Donald Trump, similarly singing: “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda”.A couple of days later, Musk in early 2024 mocked the band for the edit, writing in an X post “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” followed by a pair of crying with laughter emojis.Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt retorted, per The Independent: “Elon Musk actually is the machine.